Sentences with phrase «natural ecosystems evolved»

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Climate change amplifies existing risks to our natural resources, and many species will struggle to keep up with the rate of ecosystem change without continually evolving habitat conservation.

The two major dams, the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam below Lake Powell in Utah, have had major effects on wildlife and fish in the Colorado River, altering their natural ecosystems, drowning their habitat, and changing the temperatures of the waters in which they evolved.

In the latter work, ants clustered on a decomposing apple become a kind of microcosm, one that is differently explored in Born Better (2013) and Loose Laces (2014), where the natural world is pictured as both increasingly alien and as the heart of our own evolving (or perhaps devolving) ecosystem.

Because they haven't evolved with the local ecosystems, there's no good natural mechanisms to balance their populations, and so they threaten native fish species.